Okay, we’re here delving into a little policy inside baseball. But the weeds are not as deep, as wide or as bad as they could be. And this is vitally important – and we are at a crucial moment in the process in question. At stake is global leadership and standard-setting for the looming Fifth […]
In February 2017, iMonster Apple (Market Cap: $970 billion) stopped paying Qualcomm for the patented technologies Qualcomm invented – and Apple used in their wireless devices. Please note: Apple had signed multiple contracts – in which they agreed to pay Qualcomm for permission to use the patented technologies Qualcomm invented. Please also note: Apple continued […]
The United States has spent the last half century-plus engaging in a titanic amount of very stupid policies. Plan-by-plan, decision-by-decision – we have been outsourcing our prosperity to the rest of the planet. Trade policy, tax policy, regulatory policy,… – we have spent decades going out of our way to be as dumb as possible […]
Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, I was almost certainly subjected to more frequent and intense political discussions – than the fortunate people in the likes of Peoria, Illinois or Panama City, Florida. (Ahh…Florida.) One of the recurring DC themes – was people here seriously fretting the fact that most of the rest […]
Uber-everything company Amazon (Market Cap: $865 billion) – is a monster. Heralded as a free market success – Amazon has actually engaged in a whole lot of very anti-free market practices to get to be as huge as they are. Amazon’s Anticompetitive History Amazon Has Some Serious Antitrust Issues Amazon’s No-Profit Model: Bleed Competitors to […]
Isn’t judicial activism great? I kid. I’m a kidder. But our title is not an exaggeration. Qualcomm’s Fate In Judge Koh’s Hands As FTC Trial Wraps Who is Judge Lucy Koh?: “(A) United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California…. “On January 20, 2010, President Barack Obama […]
We the People should have known better than to hand the Democrats control of the House of Representatives. To paraphrase P.J. O’Rourke: “Giving money and power to Democrats is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” Except “teenage” is too advanced – the Democrats appear to be stuck in eternal adolescence. We have […]
We are on the verge – and in the process – of making the wireless technology jump from Fourth Generation (4G) to Fifth Generation (5G). This is a quantum leap forward – arguably bigger than all the previous jumps combined. 5G will birth the Internet of Things. Where your “smart” car talks to the “smart” […]
We all last week heard much about this: Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters I am nauseously loathe to agree with New York Communist – oops, I mean Democrat – Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But when she’s right – she’s right. Amazon Calls Out Ocasio-Cortez as One of the Lawmakers to Blame For […]
The world of politics – and political thought – is inhabited by many different subcultures. There is a broad Left-Right divide right down the middle of PoliticsLand – and there are more than a few encampments that straddle this border. Libertarianism is an…interesting such subculture. Planted firmly on the border – with plenty hanging over […]